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Tamil Figures of Speech:Categorization


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Briefly describes literary devices used in prose, poetry and discourses. A figure of speech (FOS) is a literary device. In knowledge organization tools, such as, schemes for classification, thesauri, a FOS, generally displays or implies a lateral relationship (non-hierarchic associative relationships between two or more concepts/entities. Mentions with examples some of the groupings/categorizations of FOSs used in the English compositions... Presents a list of Tamil FOS grouped According to function nd criteria for selection of FOS for practical application.

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Tamil, Literary Devices, Figures of Speech, Categorization, List.
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A. Neelameghan
Contact: 216, 4th Main Road, 16th Cross Road, Malleswaram West, Bangalore 560055, India

Abstract


Briefly describes literary devices used in prose, poetry and discourses. A figure of speech (FOS) is a literary device. In knowledge organization tools, such as, schemes for classification, thesauri, a FOS, generally displays or implies a lateral relationship (non-hierarchic associative relationships between two or more concepts/entities. Mentions with examples some of the groupings/categorizations of FOSs used in the English compositions... Presents a list of Tamil FOS grouped According to function nd criteria for selection of FOS for practical application.

Keywords


Tamil, Literary Devices, Figures of Speech, Categorization, List.

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